Juanna Green (right) of Flatwoods sits with hundreds of others on Tuesday filling out forms for Disaster Food Stamps at the Rapides Parish Coliseum in Alexandria.

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David Dinsmore
ddinsmore@thetowntalk.com

In the total antithesis of the day following Hurricane Gustav, applicants stood in line in the beating sun on a windless Tuesday to apply for the Disaster Food Stamp program in two Rapides Parish locations.

More than 1,000 people per site shuffled through the lines outside the Rapides Parish Coliseum and the Rapides Parish Office of Family Support on Murray Street in downtown Alexandria, site officials said. The Louisiana Department of Social Services is coordinating the application process through at least Monday for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food stamp program.